Iraq War

On May 1, 2003, President George W. Bush announced that "major combat operations in Iraq have ended" in a televised speech on the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln. Bush had launched the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq six weeks earlier. His announcement in front of a banner that read "…

<p><span class="deck">Historically, conscription has had real virtues.</span></p>

<p>The United States waged a brutal, racist war in the Philippines, but then became devoted to greatly improving the lives of people in America's only colony.</p>

<p><span class="deck">An interview with the president and his wife in the Oval Office</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">…and every other war in American history</span></p>

<p>For the first time in U.S. history, women are fighting alongside their male their male counterparts. So far, 110 have died in Iraq and Afghanistan.</p>